- Nov 7, 2023
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Fluffypaw's steps are soft and subtle under the canopy of pine trees. Long shadows drape across her brindled back as she crunches through pine needles and fallen tree debris. Her mentor — and Twitchbolt — aren't far, she thinks, tasting the air. Spice lands on the base of her tongue, as well as the fiery scent of her closest friend. Jade eyes twist to settle onto Candorpaw's maned figure. "We shouldn't go too far," she mews, her voice warbling like birdsong. She still remembers the ill-fated excursion she'd taken as a kit with her siblings, when her mother had bared her fangs in the face of an adder... the forest is full of danger, she knows this now. She knows this well. And Dandelionwish...
Tears prickle at the corners of either jade-green eye. Fluffypaw sniffles, but stuffs her face into the fluff storming at her chest. "Have you caught anything yet?" She asks, choosing to ignore the blatant grief that's settled on her face. "I still haven't... Greeneyes must be frustrated with me." She pads further forward, ears flicking nervously.
And that's when the crunch of something under a heavy paw causes her to stiffen.
"Candorpaw?" She turns into the opposite direction, eyes blown wide across her face. He's not there. He's somewhere behind her, in the other direction, and instead she's met the beady eyes of a fox — long-bodied, russet-toned, its muscles still and contemplative.
It is waiting for me to run.
Fluffypaw is its prey. It advances on one soot-dusted paw, its long muzzle wrinkling into an ugly dissolution. Teeth glint on either side. Its tail bushes out behind it like wildfire.
It wants to chase me.
Fluffypaw tenses, but her paws are anchored to the earth in fear.
"C-Candorpaw," she chokes, and the words hurt, claw-sharp in her throat. "Candorpaw, please. Save me." She coughs, and the beast turns its pointed face in her direction. The sun glints off the surface of its dark eyes like they're smooth, flat stones.
Run, run, run, run...
She can't.
Tears prickle at the corners of either jade-green eye. Fluffypaw sniffles, but stuffs her face into the fluff storming at her chest. "Have you caught anything yet?" She asks, choosing to ignore the blatant grief that's settled on her face. "I still haven't... Greeneyes must be frustrated with me." She pads further forward, ears flicking nervously.
And that's when the crunch of something under a heavy paw causes her to stiffen.
"Candorpaw?" She turns into the opposite direction, eyes blown wide across her face. He's not there. He's somewhere behind her, in the other direction, and instead she's met the beady eyes of a fox — long-bodied, russet-toned, its muscles still and contemplative.
It is waiting for me to run.
Fluffypaw is its prey. It advances on one soot-dusted paw, its long muzzle wrinkling into an ugly dissolution. Teeth glint on either side. Its tail bushes out behind it like wildfire.
It wants to chase me.
Fluffypaw tenses, but her paws are anchored to the earth in fear.
"C-Candorpaw," she chokes, and the words hurt, claw-sharp in her throat. "Candorpaw, please. Save me." She coughs, and the beast turns its pointed face in her direction. The sun glints off the surface of its dark eyes like they're smooth, flat stones.
Run, run, run, run...
She can't.
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Fluffykit. Fluffypaw, she/her w/ feminine terms.
— “speech”, thoughts, attack
— 8 moons old, ages realistically on the 8th.
— mentored by Greeneyes ; mentoring n/a ; previously mentored n/a.
— skyclan apprentice. butterflytuft xdandelionwish, gen 3.
— penned by Marquette.
lh chocolate tortie/cream chimera with jade eyes. frightened, clingy, anxious, gentle.